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General Knowledge Quiz 209 (60 MCQs)

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1. What name is given to an obstruction of an artery by a substance carried by the blood?
2. About how often does our solar system orbit around the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way?
3. Which of these was not a nickname of Phil Tufnell, English test cricketer from 1990 to 2001?
4. Where was the starting point for the 2015 Tour de France, for the sixth time?
5. Which of these titles, first used for Charlemagne in 800 CE, existed until the early 20th century?
6. What profession requires the artist to know about "F stops" ?
7. Oak Ridge, Tennessee is widely associated with what?
8. Which drummer for the 1960s rock band "Holy Modal Rounders" (featured in the movie "Easy Rider") received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, "Buried Child" ?
9. Whose armies were defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815?
10. Which of these is a French film actress, who has had roles in "Amélie" (2001), "The Da Vinci Code" (2006) and "Priceless" (2006)?
11. Pi squared is closest to which of these numbers?
12. In what is birdsmouthing, or birdmouthing, used?
13. When was the first message transmitted between UK and the USA by submarine telegraph cable?
14. What was the signature tune of 1950s popular pianist Winifred Attwell?
15. The USA purchased Alaska in 1867; when did it become one of the states in the United States?
16. Nicole Kidman married which country singer in 2006?
17. Who wrote the song "Fascinating Rhythm" ?
18. Reincarnation is not part of which of these religions?
19. In December 2019 the wreck of what ship was discovered close to the Falkland Islands (Malvinas); it had sunk in battle almost exactly 105 years earlier carrying down the Vice Admiral of its fleet?
20. How long is each round in a boxing match at the Olympic Games?
21. Which of these is a female whale?
22. Which building on the Île de la Cité in Paris took 300 years to build from 1163, and was one of the first to have flying buttresses?
23. Anna Wintour is famous in what field?
24. How many years is Methuselah recorded as having lived?
25. Barolo, Cava, Colombard and Gamay are varieties of what?
26. Although he never bore the title of "Pope", the Catholic Church recognises which of these people as the first Pope?
27. If you were to sail directly south from Los Angeles, USA, where would you find yourself?
28. The feet of which are referred to as trotters?
29. Much of Egyptian faience is what colour?
30. What nationality was the artist, caricaturist and author Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)?
31. After the Battle of Landriano, French monarch François I was forced to concede defeat in which war?
32. Which Beatles number ends with a piano chord that is over 40 seconds long?
33. Which highly contagious disease, characterised by the sudden onset of rigor, headache, delirium and fever, followed by a rash, is caused by a virus conveyed by lice?
34. The assassination of Salvatore Maranzano in 1931 led to a major change in what organisation?
35. Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
36. What is a function of benzotriazole?
37. A few months after the 1984 Summer Olympics a team of athletes in which sport was disclosed as having taken blood transfusions to improve their performance?
38. Which of these is a vegetable, one of the oldest known to have been cultivated?
39. Which of these historical figures is most associated with the year 1793?
40. The countries of Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, and Russia border which body of water?
41. By what name is Theodor Geisel better known?
42. Apart from one species, bromeliads are native to where?
43. A Röntgen is a measure of what?
44. Which one of the four provinces of Ireland includes Northern Ireland, and three counties in the Republic of Ireland?
45. Between 1783 and 1865, Englishmen William Wilberforce, Sir Cecil Wray and Dr Beilby Porteus, Africans Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho and, in the USA, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston were leading figures in which movement?
46. A keffiyeh or kufiya, is a what?
47. Which Indonesian volcano erupted in October / November 2010, forcing 70, 000 people from their homes?
48. Which of these is used for colouring hair?
49. Hugh Masekela, legendary trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer, spent 30 years in exile from what country?
50. According to a musical by Gilbert and Sullivan, whose "lot is not a happy one" ?
51. The Port of Hambantota, for which construction began in January 2008 to provide bunkering, ship repair, ship building and crew change facilities, is in which country?
52. What can be the effect of injecting too much insulin?
53. Louis XIV of France was known as what?
54. For what inventions used during World War II did British aviation engineer Barnes Wallis, later knighted, become famous?
55. A state of Australia, one of the world's biggest waterfalls, a London railway station, Africa's largest lake and a large public park in Hong Kong are all named after whom?
56. What annual event takes place in spring on the beaches of Berck-sur-Mer on the Opal Coast of northern France?
57. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico flow to meet the Atlantic Ocean through what?
58. What gas is the main component of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
59. A quote from Samuel Johnson is that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of ..... " what?
60. Who wrote the theme tune to the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory?
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